CHAPTER 11: MOTHERHOOD ISSUES
It had been a few weeks after the Wagners left and Kurt was glad for the visit and the fact that somehow both his mothers had come to an understanding. For Emma she was currently in her seventieth week of her pregnancy and she could no longer hide it. So she just wore very lose tops and bore with it.
She was currently in the living room just relaxing with mostly everyone at school. Besides it was quality time with her child it was actually pretty amazing since she could actually feel the child with her mind now. It was strange sensations but she would spend hours just telepathically linked to her child.
Thankfully she had finally stopped her morning sickness, she had gone a full week without rushing to the bathroom and she was glad that was finally over with. She was also getting her first ultra sound ready to go. With everything like the honeymoon and getting back into things and her running her finances she had been putting it off.
But Vince stated that she needed to do this and she really should have gotten it before she entered her second trimester but truth was she was a bit scared. She didn't tell anyone this, not even her husband but she was afraid that something may be wrong with the baby. Given normal birth defects were bad enough to worry about then there was the x-gene to think about.
So she was worried how this ultra sound might show something wrong with the baby. But touching her child's mind helped to ease this seeing as she didn't feel anything wrong but this was her first baby so she didn't know for sure.
"Well you look like you're loving this," Emma looked up to see Mystique there leaning against the doorway. Seeing Emma like that brought back memories of her own pregnancy of how she had been. She would spend hours just humming and caressing her belly that held Kurt. "So how's it going?"
"Well I can't sleep on my stomach, I feel fat, I get the strangest cravings now, I hate sitting on my ass all day and on the plus side I have to buy all new bras because my breasts are swelling and my back is starting to ache now and then." Emma sighed as she rubbed her stomach.
Mystique sighed and nodded her head, "Trust me this is the easy part wait until your eight and ninth month then that's when the 'real' fun begins," she said sarcastically rolling her yellow eyes. She got off the doorway and sat across from her in a chair.
She looked at how Emma was caressing the stomach and despite all of the downsides she really seemed to love her child. Then she noticed a smile on the blonde's face, "You look happy though."
"I am," Emma responded and she knew she was lucky given how her life was now unfolding. "I have a loving husband, a nice home for us and to raise our child, friends…" she giggled for once it was rare for her too but being pregnant brought out all types of emotions. "Well I think he's going to be something special."
"You know it's a boy?"
Emma shook her head, "Not for sure we will later today…But I can feel his mind and I think it's a boy."
Mystique hadn't thought of a telepath being able to read her child's mind. She wondered what it was like to feel your child's mind all the time or when you wanted to. She guessed that there might be a strong bond with Emma and her children from this and a part of Mystique was envious of that. Hell of everything, she had the life she would have wanted at one point in her life.
Emma then looked at Mystique, "You know besides me you're the only one that has had a kid."
"Yeah that thought has crossed my mind."
"Well I could use some pointers I mean this is all new to me and I'd rather talk to someone who knows what they are talking about." Emma had read about it and heard from things about what it will be like with people like Sage and Hank. But she would rather have it from someone with first hand knowledge.
Mystique sighed trying to remember what it had been like, that was eighteen years ago and it was hard to remember certain things from that far back. Although there was a few that stuck out, "Well let's see…You're ankles will get pretty bad from all the extra weight and your back will get a lot worst."
Emma sighed at that she just figured about that, "What about the birth itself?"
Mystique grinned at her, "Ask for drugs trust me natural child birth is hell, imagine trying to pass a bowling ball out of your body for a few hours. I was in labor with Kurt for over ten hours and it was the longest day of my life."
"I would have thought being a shape shifter would have made it a lot easier?" The expecting mother asked the older woman. After all if Mystique could shift her insides then couldn't she have made it less painful for her to have Kurt or easier?
"I wish!" Raven leaned back in her chair crossing her arms with a little frown on her face. "You try concentrating when you got a huge pain inside your body that spikes every now and then. It was impossible for me to concentrate long enough for that."
She also couldn't have taken any pain killers because of what Magneto had given her. He had told her that the experiments were to improve her child by enhancing his abilities and making him further along the evolutionary path. She should have known better then trust that man.
Emma wasn't looking forward to the birth but the only other way was to cut her open at the time and she was going to have a hard enough time to get her figure back, there was no way she was going to have a scar over her flawless stomach. Although she knew that given how her husband was with his scars she should know better.
'Okay so maybe I'm shallow in my appearance but at least I don't care about his scars.' She thought to herself.
"Oh by the way," Now Raven had a wicked smile on her face. "At one point you're going to get very…excitable." Emma frowned not sure what the other woman was going on about. She was already seemed to have a bit more energy but nothing major.
Mystique saw that she wasn't getting it, "Okay I'll cut right to it…You're going to get horny and I just hope you don't have to sat the urge with battery operated machines."
"Oh god!" Emma winced at what she had just said and the nasty mental images alone she was sure would haunt her for days. "That is way too much information."
"Hey it happens at least you got a loving husband that will most likely take care of that." The blue skinned woman pointed out. Emma really didn't want to think about it, she knew from researching that it was possible to still be intimate if you were careful but that was something she could have lived without knowing.
When her husband came into the room she was thankful for the 'rescue' from this nasty turn of events. Vince was about to say something when he felt the relief washing over his wife and he gave her a quick questioning look. "Everything okay? I was just here to bring Emma down for her first ultra sound."
"Yes we were just discussing the finer points of pregnancy." Mystique smiled at him as Emma shot up from her seat.
"Yes and it was very…Educational," The blond stated as she linked her arm with her husband leading the way out of the room. She was glad for Mystique there given her experience with pregnancies but that was just one thing too much.
Mystique waited until they were gone to give a small laugh. "Was that really necessary?" She turned around to see Irene there by the other door. Thankfully Irene had decided to stay longer it wasn't like she had anywhere she needed to be and she wanted to stay with Raven and Rogue.
"How long were you spying old friend?" Mystique hadn't heard her but then again Irene was very quiet on her feet when she wanted to be.
"Long enough," Irene smiled and she had to admit that was a bit funny with Emma's reaction to Raven's little surprise. She also noticed something else when Raven sighed a bit she knew her well enough to know when something was bothering her. "What is it?"
Mystique smiled and shook her head she could never hide anything from her. "Well I guess a little reminiscing about when I was like that."
"You're not wanting to have another child are you?"
"God no, I adopted Rogue because I didn't want to go through that again." Going through with what she had with Kurt was bad enough. Although she did wish Emma luck and if she ever wanted to know how to be a good mother she should do the exact opposite of everything she herself had done up until now. She sighed again, maybe she should give her some pointers one not to make the same mistakes she had made later on.
-Lower Levels-
"So what was going on back there?" Vincent asked Emma as they stepped out of the elevator. "I was getting some really strange things through our bond."
Emma just wanted to forget that one image although that was just hard. That and the image of her and her husband making love when she was a few months further along was another image she wasn't sure about. Emma had just figured she wouldn't be in the mood for sex but if it was the opposite she couldn't figure out to be glad about this revelation or not.
"We were talking about pregnancies and she went to a place I never thought nor wanted to go." Was the only thing his wife said and he could tell he wasn't going to get anything else out of her. When she shut off on a topic like that it was like a steel trap.
He just shrugged it wasn't important he was more nervous about this ultrasound they were going to see their baby for the first time and it was playing with his nerves. They had thought about going to a doctor outside of the mansion but the truth was they wanted someone they could trust for this, so Hank and Sage had been setting this up.
Xavier even told them that he was calling up an old friend who might be able to be around here during Emma's due date. But that was off in February so they had plenty of time with the fall settling in. They walked together hand in hand as they went into the medical room, Vince hated these places they only brought up memories of his time as a child being experimented on.
But he would brave it out for Emma, besides it only made him slightly nervous to be in a place like this. It wasn't like he was on a bed with tubes going through his body that he couldn't stand. He saw Hank there in his typical pants and shirt with a lab coat on smiling as he worked with Sage.
He had to admit those two were really good for each other, Sage helped him to get out of the mansion more and she found herself someone she could talk to and spend lots of time with.
'She also claims that Hank is the best lover she has had although I like my men tall, dark and Canadian,' Emma's voice ran into his head and he smiled looking at her. It was no secret that Hank and Sage were intimate and it was nice seeing her smile too. Normally she seemed to have been closed off when she got here being able to shut off her emotional side of her brain and all.
But Sage had used that less and less as she and Hank got closer together. In fact it was the slightly pale skinned woman that noticed them first, "Ah good you have arrived then we can get started with the procedure."
"Ah yes I look forward to this," Hank adjusted his glasses as Emma put herself up on the table and laid herself down on it. "I've never had the opportunity to study a mutant pregnancy since there are only a few documented cases from only a handful of people. This should really help for future mutant pregnancies down the line."
"Oh I'm so glad I get to help you in your little science experiment then. Makes all of this oh so worthwhile." Emma said sarcastically crossing her arms with a sigh.
"Emma you know he didn't mean it like that," Vince told her standing next to her.
"I'm sorry Hank it's just…"
He held up a hand with a smile showing no hard feelings, "It is alright my dear I should have been more tactful. Now then let's get started shall we?"
Emma pulled up her top to expose her stomach, then Sage went and put on a cold jell all over it. Vince held her hand and both of them were nervous about this but both of them were give the other the strength to continue.
Hank then ran a device over her stomach several times as a monitor was set up. Everyone looked to see the black and white image on there. When Hank got a decent image he froze it as he and Sage studied it, the parents couldn't even speak seeing their child.
Both of them had their mental bond opened up and both were flooded with emotions at the sight. There wasn't much to make out but they would see the head, body and arms. It was still small and yet both of them were feeling emotions they had never felt before. It was like a level of joy they never thought could exist.
Vince her hand a bit tighter and she did the same tears were threatening to well in their eyes seeing their child. Sage had been talking with Hank but either of them noticed until she turned to the two expecting parents. "Well it looks like everything is fine, you have a nice young healthy baby boy it seems."
"A boy?" Vince asked her and she nodded and pointed at how she knew. Vince smiled at looking at his son there, "I guess at least we know can use that name we talked about." He turned to his wife who nodded her head smiling at the sight of their son.
The young baby boy that they would be named Jack Freeman in honor of the man that made this possible Jack Robinson, it was only fitting after all that their friend who had given his life for them all that his name be remembered. They had talked and this would be the best way to honor him by giving his name to their first born male child.
-Later that Night-
Jean was getting ready for bed as she was in PJ bottoms with a top that was an old jersey of Scott's. She used to wear her old one but that had been lost when the mansion was blown up along with a lot of other personal stuff they all had. Then when she and Scott started sleeping together she had used that after when she had stayed in his room for the night.
Now she couldn't really sleep without it. She was at her vanity mirror and glanced down and smiled at the engagement ring. They were going to marry right after this school year and she couldn't wait for it. Her parents had given them their blessing and so far things were going much better this year.
Sure school work was tough but no major villains had shown up, she and Scott were living together and her nightmares of the Hellfire Club capture weren't so bad. She was still having them at some points, sometimes it was of her time in that dungeon cell with the others trapped and powerless. Or it was of her as the Red Queen doing all those horrible things like breaking through Vincent's mental barriers for them.
Or worse when she had been enslaved to Shaw as he used her as his personal weapon and sex slave, she hated that and still remembered the few times she had gone to him 'willingly' or when they used mental images to fool her into thinking it was Scott. She still had no idea which were just nightmares and which had been illusions and she wasn't sure she even wanted to know.
But thankfully the therapy sessions she had with the others helped as well as talking to Scott about such things. At first they had those talks with the group everyday, then every few days then once a week. Now they were down to just a few times a month. It was real progress and she knew without Scott she might not have been able to do it.
Then she felt a pair of strong hands on her shoulders and smiled seeing Scott there kissing her neck, "You coming to bed?"
"Yes Slim just give me a moment," She giggled feeling his kissing her neck like that. He nodded as he went to their bed. Their bed, she liked the sound of that. He finished up and saw him replacing his glasses with his sleeping ones. They looked kind of like swimming goggles in a way but they were designed not to break when he turned in the night.
If he wore his regular ones they would fall off or snap even. Scott adjusted them and the straps holding them together and pulled the covers back. He watched as Jean came to her side and got in next to him, she turned off the lights and then they moved closer so they could be in each others arms.
Scott sighed loving this feeling of closeness with her, he never thought he could feel this close to anyone but after nearly losing her so many times he knew that she was a part of him. He thought how soon they would be married like Emma and Vince and one day having a family of their own.
He knew that they were the godparents to their child but he wondered how good a dad he would be. He was after all only twenty one, well nearly twenty two so if Jean and him had kids say a few years after marriage they would be out of college and still be young.
"Scott you're mind is racing," Jean told him feeling his mind working overtime it seemed but she wasn't prying.
"Just thinking about the future," He said to her he could feel her mind caressing his now that their bond was so strong just like the hair and the smell of it near his face. "I mean I'm not sure how good a dad I'll be, my own was taken when I was just a kid. Plus if anything happens to Emma and Vince we will take care of their kid although don't get me wrong I'll gladly do it."
She reached up and kissed him on the lips. "Scott you are a caring and compassionate man, I know you'll do well as a father trust me." She kissed him a bit and he ran a hand through that mane of red hair tasting her lips. He ran his tongue over her lips and she opened her mouth allowing him inside as he explored her mouth.
Jean moaned feeling this and ran her hand over his chest feeling his strong body through the muscle shirt he wore. She had thought about going to bed but maybe not so soon. She pulled out of the breathtaking kiss and smiled at him as her eyes started to adjust to the darkness. "Scott…Are you up for a little quick bedtime fuck?"
He grinned knowing that she used the work making love for normal stuff but that word for a quick romp with each other. "Not up for lovemaking?"
"Not tonight I'm a bit too tired but not for a little quickie," She told him so he pulled her on top of him as he gave her a deep kiss. They opened up their bond so they could feel it all, the emotions and sensations. Scott went to caress her breasts covered by her shirt he would prefer to feel the flesh under it but this was still good.
She moaned in approval as her hand went under his waist band. She began her search until she found his member and started to stroke it gently when he groaned in response she smiled. They continued on fondling each other and feeling the other up. Jean got out of her pants throwing them and the panties to the floor.
Scott reached into the side drawer and pulled out a condom package they always kept a supply of them on hand. They did love each other and they would want a family one day but they didn't want to start so soon.
Jean then pulled down his pants and his underwear as he gave her the condom she put it on and then straddled his hips and sat down slowly letting him slide inside of her. They both gave a groan as they united Jean didn't moved at first just getting used to him and then moved her hips around. "Oh god Jean…" Scott moan as his hands caressed her thighs. She loved the feeling of his hands there and placed her own on his chest feeling the strong muscles of her fiancé.
Then she rose up and then back down starting a slow rhythm as she started to ride him. Scott moved his hips with her thrusting up as she came down. Jean would moved her hips with the movement making him hit all her nice spots and also so that he would hit her g-spot increasing the pleasure.
They started to slowly increase their speed panting with it as well as moaning and groans of pleasure. Jean leaned a bit more over as Scott grabbed her bare ass kneading it. She bit her lip a bit in pleasure continuing to ride her lover.
Soon they were reaching a frantic pace with Scott's hands on her impressive breasts through her shirt as he was grunting with the effort thrusting up into her body. "Oh god…Jean you're so…Incredible I love you so much baby."
"Oh I love you too Scott…I'm almost there…just…just a little…Longer," She started to moan out Scott was always so good to her. Making her feel so good she didn't think anyone would be able to satisfy her like he could. "Oh…oh…OH GOD!" She cried out feeling her climax as she threw her head back.
She slammed down onto him and the increase pressure was all Scott needed as he moaned out as he released his seed. After a few breaths Jean fell onto her lover as they held each other lovingly in the after glow of their sex.
"Jean…you do know…I need to take off that condom right?" He asked her panting heavily.
She moaned a bit, "Just a little longer…I love being in your arms."
He smiled and gave a small laugh hugging her close. If this was what their future would be like then he was looking forward when she was his wife. He felt they were already married except in name, but emotionally and spiritually they already were bonded together that meant much more then a legal document or a pair of rings.
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